Susan Carroll Fellowship
In continued coverage of unpunished war crimes during the Vietnam War, Deborah Nelson and Nick Turse, special to the Los Angeles Times, reveal disturbing details of military cover-ups. ” While the Army was working energetically to discredit Herbert, military investigators were uncovering torture and mistreatment that went well beyond what he had described. The abuses…
Read MoreAssociated Press reporter Martha Mendoza reports on a probe into sexual misconduct by military recruiters. In a six-month investigation, the AP found “at least 35 Army recruiters, 18 Marine Corps recruiters, 18 Navy recruiters and 12 Air Force recruiters were disciplined for sexual misconduct or other inappropriate behavior with potential enlistees in 2005, according to…
Read MoreThe Washington Post has launched a series examining how government agencies have responded to 9/11 in the past five years. Stories include coverage of a failed $170 million contract to rebuild the FBI’s internal case file system, and how training at the FBI Academy fails to adequately keep pace with its new focus on terrorism.
Read MoreNancy Phillips and Craig R. McCoy of The Philadelphia Inquirer report on the troubling trend of police officers in Philadelphia using their status to extort sex. “Most police departments do little to identify the offenders, and even less to stop them. Unlike other types of police misconduct, the abuse of police power to coerce sex…
Read MoreThe Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Frank Kummer and Melanie Burney expose the findings of a New Jersey Department of Education report on irregular test scores in the region. While avoiding the use of the word cheating, the report found that “adult interference” was the likely culprit of unusually high test scores in the Camden area. The Department…
Read MoreFollowing the release of the American Community Survey data by the Census Bureau, Mary Jo Sylwester of the St. Paul Pioneer Press compiled a list of stories utilizing the data set. Some of these include: Impact of immigrants on churches, St. Paul Pioneer Press A third of the households in Wisconsin are individuals living alone,…
Read MoreTim Darragh and Ann Wlazelek, of The Morning Call, report on the Lehigh Valley (PA) Hospital which posted a record surplus – $ 76 million – in 2005. “Such boomtown prosperity at a nonprofit institution is allowed under the tax code as long as the hospital provides a substantial “community benefit” each year in exchange…
Read MoreJeff Hansen and Marie Leech of The Birmingham News report on black flight from Birmingham’s public schools and its impact on suburban school districts. In the past five years, Birmingham schools have lost 20 percent of their students. Nine of every 10 of those 7,300 children who left the city were black.
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